The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Release date: 1985-08-16
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Dan O'Bannon
Production Co: Hemdale, Fox Films
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Rating: 7.3/10
Length: 1h 31min

Storyline

When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.

Plot Keywords

female frontal nudity, naked dead woman, punk, cemetery, undead, paramedic, poison gas, crematorium, female nudity, living dead, mortician, nuclear weapon, stripping, eaten alive, striptease, no survivors, psychotronic film, cannibalism, cadaver, warehouse

Short Review

O'Bannon deserves considerable credit for creating a terrifically funny first half-hour of exposition, something in which he is greatly aided by the goofball performance of James Karen as a medical supply know-it-all.